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After a decade of saying no, John Grisham has made a movie deal for his 1999 bestselling novel “The Testament.” Producers Mark Johnson and Hunt Lowry are teaming with 821 Entertainment Group to option the book, with 821’s Eric Geadelmann and Ben Horton taking exec producer credit.

Paramount Pictures has picked up Shia LaBeouf to play the title role in their adaptation of John Grisham’s upcoming legal thriller “The Associate,” which the studio has just acquired rights to. LaBeouf will play a student who’s about to graduate from Yale Law School when he’s manipulated into accepting a job at a prestige law firm and given privileged information about a multi-billion dollar lawsuit.

Adam Shankman is set to direct “Playing for Pizza,” an adaptation of the John Grisham bestseller that will be scripted by J. Mills Goodloe. Phoenix Pictures optioned the book in May. “We want to make this grittier than the book, a cross between ‘North Dallas Forty’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’,” Shankman said.